Maphead
Lesley Howarth
Published by Walker
0-7445-3647-2, £3.99 pbk
And now for something completely different... It's amazing, but true, that Lesley Howarth has pulled off this piece of weird storytelling, where the utterly fantastic seems plausible. Maphead is a child resulting from the coupling of an alien from the parallel Subtle World and an earth woman whom he saved from a bolt of lightning. Alien and boy return to Rubytown for a reunion between son and mother, but complications arise when feelings and love begin to intrude on what was intended as purely a fact-finding mission. Rites of passage with a difference.
Reviewed in BfK No. 93 (July 1995) by David Bennett (DB)
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